Thursday, September 27, 2007

Getting to the point where you can solo Deadmines is a good thing. Even though the greens and blues you will collect are below your needs, they are probably good for your alt or even for disenchanting. I needed items to give to my enchanter, so instead of sharing with a group, I went alone.

As long as I paid attention and watched the pulls, soloing with my 36 Druid wasn't really that hard.

Boss number two:

Stopping to take a picture before moving on to the goblins:

This is what happens when you take pictures and ignore the patrols. They sneak up behind you. No worry, they really weren't much of a problem.

This place has annoying goblin engineers and their robots. Didn't save this guy though.

When I first saw this Night Watch outside of Darkshire, I wondered what it was for? I found out rather quickly.Stitches is a big guy that resembles the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. He spawns after you complete Bride of the Embalmer and marches to Darkshire. He cuts the Night Watch up pretty easily.

He wasn't counting on help. With the assistance of a 32 Hunter, we melted down Mr. Stay Puft.Too bad he didn't explode into a bunch of goo. That would have been interesting.

As with all of the Elite mobs in Darkshire, he drops nothing of value. Why is that?

I was taking Apolo to Darkshire a couple of days ago and we took the Gryphons to Sentinel Hill.

Apolomyth was following me, and after we landed, he stayed on the gryphon. He followed me down the road while still on the bird!

I asked if this was a warlock talent? He said, "What talent? What bird?"

He couldn't see the bird!

So, I took a picture. Here we are almost to Darkshire and Apolomyth is still on the bird. He rode it the entire way. It was very cool. Wish I knew which glitch caused that to happen. I'd try it sometime.

I've been hanging out in Stranglethorn because I'm broke, and this place is leather heaven.

Sadly, even though I can make cool things like Toughened Leather Gloves, someone on Bladefist keeps putting stacks of them on the Auction House and selling them for nothing. So the best I can do is give them away to friends.

Anyway, while in Stranglethorn I completed the tiger hunter quest which included battling Sin'Dall. He's not real easy at 33 and he took me down twice before I was successful.Of course with my luck he dropped nothing but the quest item. Oh well.

Friday, September 7, 2007

Here's Karrah at the big Darkmoon cannon. One of only two mini-games at the fair.

You launch yourself in the cannon and try to hit a target. No prizes for hitting the target, which seems dumb to me. Why not Darkmoon (bind on pickup) t-shirts?Here's Karrah flying. When you launch from the cannon you get a pair of wings to use in your flight. They disappear shortly after landing.Here's the target. I never hit it.

One of the promises of Darkmoon Faire is that you can acquire items you can't normally find by taking down mobs and doing quests.

Is this true?

Not entirely.

Here is my mage Karrah in the exotic goods booth. This vendor sells herbs, leather and a couple of Darkmoon exclusives, a ring and a necklace.The herbs can be things like Dream Foil and Steel Bloom and the leather is everything from medium to rugged. Prices are okay and if you want to make a quick item with your trade skill, this might be the place to get the ingredients.

But, they are limited in quantity. This means when you show up, the vendor may have 3, or she may have none. You can hang out and keep clicking, eventually everything respawns.

She also has a ring and a necklace.

We looked for the ring and necklace all day long. The ring finally spawned in the evening and we snagged it. It took five gold that we really didn't need to spend, but for some reason we wanted this level 50 ring we can't even use yet. Worse even, it's a bind on equip, which means it will sit in the bank a loooong time. Oh well. It's the fair. Aren't you supposed to blow all your cash?

Darkmoon Faire just opened outside of Goldshite. This is the first faire since I've been playing Warcraft, so I'm going to offer my impressions on this "in game extra."Keilakat at the Entrance to Darkmoon Faire

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Welcome to what is essentially a digital diary of my days in WoW, going all the way back to the first week I started playing.
My main is Keilakat on the Bladefist server. I have a bunch of alts, but they are currently on extended vacation.
I tend to write from the point of view of an Azeroth tourist, so if you're looking for hardcore tips, you are probably in the wrong place.